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Bnterod according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by 

HORACE H. HOUGHTON, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in atkI 

for the Northern District of Illinois. 



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PREFACE. 



The highest earthly creation is Man. Man's 
highest aspiration of attainment is Justice, for that i» 
the foundation of Almighty Power,- and Justice in 
created things is the highest Mercy. 

By Justice, we mean that combination of all the 
forms of power pertaining to any thing, so propor- 
tioned to each other as to make the thing complete in 
itself, and capable of the highest use for which it was 
created. 

For instance, a Human Being, to meet the above 
requirement, must be so constructed that his aspirations 
will be true, his physical proportions exact, so that hi? 
actions may subserve the highest Use to himself and. 
others, and that his whole being may move in har- 
mony with the Divine Mind. 

Truth begets Truth by contact, and is an overmatch 
for error when the conditions of the former are so well 
understood as to permit the whole to assume the cha- 
racter of living Faith in the Human Mind. If the 
Theory contained in these pages be true, as the author 
believes it to be, it will in due time be universally 
acknowledged as such, and the one effect of its know- 
ledge will be, to press every thing in Man to a confor- 
formity with it, and bring peace on earth to him. 
on the Principle of Universal Justice. 



PHILOSOPHY. 



All things in being, whether pertaining to 
Mind or Matter, in every Form and Force, 
Quality and Quantity, may be accurately de- 
fined by means of Twenty-eight distinct Ideas. 

These Twenty-eight Ideas are divided into 
two parts of Fourteen Expressions each, the 
First Fourteen of which may be known by 
name as follows: 

GOD AS FATHER, 
GOD AS SON, 
GOD AS SPIRIT, 
ONE GOD. 

PRINCIPLE, 
LAW, 

RESULT, 
CAUSE, 
EFFECT, 
USE, 

NERVOUS TEMPERAMENT. 
BILIOUS TEMPERAMENT, 
SANGUINE TEMPERAMENT, 
LYMPHATIC TEMPERAMENT, 

By means of the Powers expressed by these 
Ideas, all living organizations are designed — 
all forms of things are arranged in thought. 



all spiritual forces controlled, all moral actions 
measured, and defined by the exact Rules of 
MORAL JUSTICE, in "all the Universe of 
being. 

In the above, in the Creation of anything of 
Life, the Mind of Deity gives Action; He uses 
the Temperaments to give general Character, 
and the six middle Terms to give particular 
Form. 

So as in the solution of any Mathematical 
problem, the Mind of Man uses the four 
Ground Rules of Arithmetic to give the Cha- 
racter of Truth to the solution, and by means of 
them using the Nine Digits and the Cypher 
to give it exact and essential Form. 

In the above it will be noticed that there are 
Three Divisions of Power — Two of Four Terms 
each and one of Six Terms. It may be under, 
derstood, that in the explanation of this The- 
ory, wherever a Family of Four Terms occur, 
the last or Fourth Term is the Power that 
binds the other Three together, and makes 
them in Use, One. And where the Family 
consists of Six Terms, the several Terms relate 
to each other as Principle, Law, Result, Cause, 
Effect and Use relate to each other. And the 



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First Three can combine with the Second Three 
as Male and Female, and a Seventh Term may 
be the Product, the Seventh Term representing 
the whole Six, from which it originates. 

The Second Division of these Twenty-Eight 
Ideas also consists of Fourteen in number^ 
which are named and may be signified as fol- 
lows, to wit: 

NOTHING, 

ONE, 

TWO, 

THREE. 

FOUR, 

FIVE, 

SIX, 

SEVEN, 

EIGHT, 

NINE, 

OIVISION, 
MULTIPLICATION, 
SUBSTRACTION, 
ADDITION. 

By the First Ten Ideas, wrought and die- 
posed in the Mind by the Four others called 

DIVISION, 
MULTIPLICATION, 
SUBSTRACTION, 
ADDITION. 

all Material Things can be weighed and 
measured, and all the forms and motions per- 
taining to each defined with the most perfect 



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exactness, from the sun in the Universe to tht 
smallest mote that floats in the atmosphere of 
space. By them Mind can calculate the di- 
ameter of the spider's web, or the distance to 
the remotest planet that circles the heavens. 

By means of these Second Fourteen Ideas 
we attain a definite knowledge of MATHE- 
MATICAL JUSTICE, as in the First Four- 
teen Moral Justice is defined "with complete 
exactness in the Divine Mind. 

The Third great form of Power is MAN. 
He is constructed by and by means of the 
First Fourteen Ideas that define Moral Justice, 
working with the Second Fourteen, by which 
Material things are weighed, measured and 
adjusted so that they are organized to become 
the Habitation of Human Life. Man holds the 
highest connecting link between Mind and 
Matter, and partakes both of the Immortal and 
the Mortal. As the purposed Use of his exis- 
tence is perfect, and as the powers of Mind that 
work are Morally Just, and as that Mind works 
by and with exact and Just Mathematical Law 
in the organization of Matter for the Habita- 
tion of Human Life, the thing formed should 
be Just and perfect also. 



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The number of Ideas that constitute the 
Theory of Man are Twenty -eight, correspond- 
ing in number with those that form and de- 
fine Moral and Mathematical Justice. 

These Ideas are different expressions of 
power, and consist of Four Families of Six 
Terms each, from each Family of which is born 
a Seventh term, in which Seventh term each 
Family is represented, and each term of each 
Family. 

In each of the Four Families, the first three 
Terms relate to the Second Three, in the Order 
of Creative Power, as Male and Female, and a 
combination of the Six produce the Seventh, 
or Representative Term, thus : 

ACTION, l Co ^ ned ilN^RT^Aproduco 1 H ™| N 
FOBM, j " Vlth (TIME, J I LIFE. 

And so of all the Families and their several 
representatives. 

The following are the names of each mem- 
ber or term of these Four Families of Six, and 
also of the Seventh, which proceeds from and 
is the Representative of each Family, in the 
respective order of each member : 



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First Family : 



MIND. 

ACTION. 

FORM. 

MATTER. 

INERTIA. 

TIME. 

Representative, LIFE. 

Second Family : 

SPIRIT. 
SPECIES. 
SENSES. 
PASSIONS. 
PHYSICAL MAN. 
MORAL MAN. 

Representative, CONSCIENCE. 



Third Family: 



RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 
ALIMENTARY SYSTEM. 
SYSTEM OF THE BONES. 
MENTAL SYSTEM. 
NERVOUS SYSTEM. 
MUSCULAR SYSTEM. 

Representative, PHYSICAL STRENGTH. 

Fourth Family : 

INSTINCT. 

APPETITE. 

REASON. 

SYMPATHY. 

WILL. 

JUDGMENT, 

Representative, FAITH, 



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The Four Representative Powers of each 
Family above are consequently known as 
named as follows : 

LIFE, 

CONSCIENCE, 
PHYSICAL STRENGTH, 
FAITH. 

The Use of the last or Fourth Term, Faith 
is to bind the forces of the other Three together 
in every Purpose and Action, and thus make 
them in Effect, One. It is the sum of the whole. 

In these Four Terms, so combining in har- 
mony of action, CONSISTS THE GOVERN- 
MENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL MAN. 

So acting and operating upon and with each 
other, as One, they can become the receptacle 
of both MORAL and MATHEMATICAL 
JUSTICE, from which must flow PERSON- 
AL JUSTICE. 

By means of these Second Twenty-eight 
Ideas that constitute Man, all the general hab- 
its, peculiarities, beliefs, moral actions and 
physical excellencies or defects, or whatever 
pertains to Man, Individually or Nationally, 
may be accurately defined in Reason to the 
Human Consciousness and Faith; and as the 



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Cause of the Good is pointed out, so the Hu- 
man Mind can clearly see and comprehend 
the Kerned y for the Evil. 

NATIONAL JUSTICE is formed by a 
combination of the following Powers, which 
are the symbols of the Powers that form Indi- 
vidual Justice, as above. They form the 
National Government, as those Powers form 
Individual Government, viz : 

EXECUTIVE POWER, 
LEGISLATIVE POWER, 
JUDICIAL POWER, 
POPULAR POWER. 

The- Action of these Powers in Harmony of 
Purpose, the First Three bound together and 
thus sustained by the Popular Faith— -as the 
Individual Faith binds together in one the 
Life, the Conscience and Physical Strength — 
constitutes NATIONAL JUSTICE. 

In our Government, these Four Forms of 
Power are each and all represented by — 

THE PRESIDENT, 

THE CONGRESS, 

THE SUPREME COURT, and 

THE PEOPLE, 

Who, it will be seen, represent in the Nation 
what — 



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THE LIFE, 

THE CONSCIENCE, 

THE PHYSICAL STKENGTH, and 

THE FAITH, 

Represent in the Individual Man. 

We also get the Four Essential Forms of 
JUSTICE, to wit: 
MORAL justice, 

MATHEMATICAL JUSTICE, 
PERSONAL JUSTICE, 
NATIONAL JUSTICE, 

These Four Forms of Justice are the "Image 
of God" in Maw, and they were all perfect in 
him in his creation at the beginning of his 
existence. The thing to be attained, is to Res- 
tore this likeness of character between God 
and Man. It will be borne constantly in the 
Mind, that in the following, the Fourth Term, 
ONE GOD, is the uniting or binding force of 
the other Three, and makes perfect harmony 
and justness of action in the Supreme Mind : 

GOD THE FATHER, 
GOD THE SON, 
GOD THE SPIRIT, 
ONE GOD, 

In a like manner, the Fourth Term of Jus- 
tice— NATIONAL JUSTICE— is the uniting 
or binding force of the other Three. 



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The Powers of ONE GOD and NATIONAL 
JUSTICE, and all that they encompass or bind 
together, relate to each other as a Principle 
to a Use, andf in the bringing them together 
in the Faith of a perfect Science, consists all 
Human Reform, Excellence and Progress. 
In PRINCIPLE Man receives Power from 
God, and in USE, Man returns it to Him again. 
By means of this System the People of the 
United States can attain to a perfect and per- 
petual Nationality. 




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